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of the mouth of moderate width, extending to below the eye. 

 All the teeth villiform, forming bands. Pectoral and vertical 

 fins well developed, the dorsal commencing in advance of the 

 gillopenings. Nostrils small, the anterior without tube. Eyes 

 large, without orbital fold. Gillopenings rather wide, close 

 together. [After GUNTHER]. 



Distribution of the single species known: Celebes and 

 Tahiti. 



i. Poeciloconger fasciatus Gthr. 



Poeciloconger fasciatus Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1871, p. 673. 

 Fische d. Siidsee, Heft IX. 1910, p. 393. 



Tail longer than the body, which is compressed; the length 

 of the head is contained once and two thirds or one and 

 three fourths in that of the trunk. Head narrow, snout pointed, 

 one half longer than the eye. Anterior nostrils rather distant 

 from point of snout. Lips thin; angle of mouth below the 

 middle of the eye. Teeth in narrow bands, the vomerine band 

 only half as long as the maxillary ones. The dorsal rays are not 

 quite so high as the body, but much higher than the anal 



Fig. 115. Poeciloconger fasciatus Gthr. XiV2-r( After GUNTHER). 



rays; the length of the pectorals two sevenths of that of the 

 head. Gillopenings as wide as the orbit, rather close together, 

 not extending upwards above the pectorals. Purplish brown; 

 head with large, round brown spots; trunk with five to six, 

 tail with 6 to 8 brown cross bands, broader than the inter- 

 spaces and the middle ones the broadest; they extend on the 

 dorsal fin. Dorsal fin with longitudinal lines, anal with a darker 

 margin. In the specimen of Tahiti, some of the crossbands 

 of the tail are broken up into irregular great patches. Length 

 500 mm. [After GUNTHER; not seen by us]. 



Habitat: Only two specimens known: one from Celebes 

 (Menado), the other from Tahiti. 



